Today’s a slow day on TV by the Numbers, and with the kids home for Thanksgiving break, the family television has been tuned to the Science Channel’s Fringe Marathon because, you know, why not? However, something interesting has been appearing throughout today’s marathon…promos for Terra Nova and Dollhouse repeats! Science Channel already airs repeats of canceled series Fringeand Firefly, so it would make sense, but we’ll leave this in rumor territory until we hear something official. Here’s a screenshot of a Dollhouse clip airing in the promo, for your viewing pleasure.And yes, it was taken on a cell phone camera, so it looks a little off.

Multiplesites now reporting that Netflix has passed on a chance to save Fox’s canceled Terra Nova.

There was mention of “serious discussions”, but no details. Absent from current reports were whether plastic dinosaurs were received by Netflix. Perhaps the lack of tchotchkes was final nail in the show’s well buried coffin.

With all the “Save Our Show” news swirling around Netflix of late, Robert may have no choice but to resurrect his “DirecTV Save Our Show Top 10” list as the “Netflix Save Our Show Top 10” list.

Stephen Lang who played Nathaniel Taylor on Terra Nova is unsurprisingly upset about the show’s cancellation. He compares the plight of the show to that of the Hubble Telescope which launched with a flaw in one of its mirrors that rendered it less effective than planned. The Hubble got its chance though and was repaired and went on to provide the Earth-bound with beautiful images of the universe we live in.

The astronomy buff in me finds his comments a bit offensive, and I strongly disagree with his conclusion that “Failing to renew Terra Nova is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. Terra Nova is the Hubble Telescope of television.” But despite that, his statement (worth clicking over to read) is hands-down the most awesome post-cancellation rant from an actor I’ve ever seen.

On Monday when Fox canceled Terra Nova and 20th Century Fox Television (the producing studio) said it planned to shop the show to other networks, I suggested that it might make more sense for the “save our show” crazy faithful fans to send their plastic dinosaurs to Netflix rather than Syfy. But I mostly meant that in the “now that DirecTV is out of the save a low-rated canceled show business, let’s ask Netflix!” sense.

Tonight the TV-related interwebs are embracing “Will Netflix Save Terra Nova” nonsense. The premise itself isn’t nonsensical, but the Deadline.com story noting that Netflix and 20th Century Fox TV ” have been in talks about keeping the pre-historic drama alive” is a bit wacky. If you read a little further it seems like “have been in talks” might have merely meant that Netflix didn’t laugh hysterically and then hang up when 20th TV called. It’s sad to see the once proudly snarky Deadline.com come off like an E! Online-style site that panders to fans, even ending the story with the line “Keep the faith, fans…”

What irked me most about the article though wasn’t the fan pandering, it was this:

It would make a sense for Terra Nova, a Top 10 DVR gainer, to get a second life on a streaming service like Netflix. During its freshman run, the series‘ 18-49 rating grew on average 44% in Live+7 vs. Live+Same day.

I understand how someone would make that leap. Just like I understand the leap made all the time by our commenters that “NBC should just pick up CBS’s canceled shows because CBS’s lowest-rated shows would be among NBC’s highest-rated!” Sadly for NBC in that example, that assumes that the shows would maintain the ratings they had on CBS once they moved to NBC. Even NBC knows the odds of that happening are 0.

Fortunately, since Netflix doesn’t sell ads that doesn’t matter much, but the notion that the Live+7 percentage increase over Live+SD should matter to Netflix is goofy. By that metric Terra Nova’s 44% is hardly better than Ringer (43%), Harry’s Law (42%) or Pan Am (41%). In the absolute Terra Nova had more DVR viewing than those shows, but Terra Nova’s ratings weren’t awful, they just weren’t good enough for what it was costing Fox.

Should Fringe be canceled , its fans will love Deadline’s logic: Fringe adds a whopping 66% to its Live+SD rating once the full 7 days are counted. Projecting the intersection of cost & benefit for Netflix is tricky but I’d guess Fringe would make much more sense for Netlix if it’s canceled than Terra Nova does.

The Deadline story also notes that Netflix has already saved one canceled show produced by 20th Century Fox Television — Arrested Development. But there are at least two big differences the story doesn’t note. Arrested Development needs far fewer new episodes than Terra Nova to get enough episodes where stripped syndication would be viable. Perhaps more importantly, Netflix already had a very good idea about how many of its subscribers cared about Arrested Development since it had been available on Netflix streaming for quite a while before the deal for new episodes was struck.

Terra Nova won’t be back for a second season, at least not on Fox which has decided not to renew the show for a second season. Unsurprisingly, the studio (Twentieth Century Fox Television) is keeping hope alive saying it will shop the show to other networks. I’d be surprised to see another network pick up the show, but not surprised to see any crazy fans divert their plastic dinosaurs from Fox to Syfy. Perhaps Netflix is a better target.

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I the latest instance of crazy and futile fan “Save Our Show” campaigns, this time for Fox’s Terra Nova, comes one with an extra crazy twist.

No matter what happens, it won’t have anything to do with plastic dinosaurs, online petitions, Facebook pages, Twitter campaigns or any other fan SoS nonsense.

But be certain that if Terra Nova is renewed, that the crazy fans will think it did!

Update: I’m not sure how it could be construed that way, but I don’t believe fans of the show are crazy, just the fans who think sending plastic dinosaurs (or other such SoS efforts) will matter in the renewal decision are crazy.

With no football and only four new episodes on broadcast it was a much sleepier Saturday night than in recent weeks as ABC and NBC tied on top the adults 18-49 ratings for the night.

The two new (as opposed to the typical new/repeat combo) episodes of Cops drew a 1.3 and 1.5 adults 18-49 ratings, vs. a 1.5 rating for the single new episode last week. They were the top rated shows on the night.

The two new episodes of 48 Hours Mystery at 9 and 10 (as opposed to the typical one at 10pm) drew a 0.8 and 1.1 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 1.0 rating two weeks ago at 10pm.

Note that the repeat of Betty White’s 90th birthday was a single 90 minute show, but its 90 minute ratings are not available to us today, so the individual half hours are listed.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. More information on ratings is available here.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Fast National Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.

*Due to the nature of live programming the ratings for CBS (NFL playoff game) and FOX (NFL playoff game overrun) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.

Of course CBS won the night, but with the Patriots winning in a blowout the ratings weren’t nearly as Tebowlicious as they could’ve been. I’ll say it again, the numbers below are preliminary, not time zone adjusted, and are only for for 8-11pm ET (the game started at ~8:15 and ran past 11p) they almost certainly will be adjusted up a little bit in the final numbers. Depending on how much of an adjustment record viewership for the Saturday night divisional round primetime game is still possible (the record is an average of 30.9 million viewers), but it will be nowhere near the > 50 million that divine prognosticators were rooting for in our ratings poll.

Update: in the metered market household ratings (which are for the full game and time zone adjusted, it did set a record for a Saturday division round primetime game and was the highest rated AFC divisional playoff in 18 years.

Fox was second on the night boosted by a little bit of the afternoon game (Saints/49ers) running into primetime in the eastern and central timezones (now THAT was an exciting game!).

The lack of a close game in New England might have aided Miss America and ABC – the pageant was up 13% versus last year to a 1.8 adults 18-49 rating between 9-11p.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. More information on ratings is available here.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Fast National Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.

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During week fourteen of the 2011-12 broadcast season (December 19-25, 2011) with a very, very light holiday week schedule of new broadcast episodes, FOX’s Terra Nova topped the rankings for the week’s DVR viewing adults 18-49 ratings added between the Live+Same Day period (as reported in all our other ratings posts) and the Live + 7 Day measurement periods with a gain of 0.9 adults 18-49 ratings points.

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The 18-49 Demo Increase From DVR Viewing ranks which of the top broadcast shows [by Live+7 adults 18-49 ratings] had the largest absolute adults 18-49 ratings increase in viewing by DVR in their adults 18-49 Live+7 audience numbers from viewers watching shows after the airdate on their digital video recorders (DVRs).

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The 18-49 Demo % Increase From DVR Viewing ranks which of the top broadcast shows [by Live+7 18-49 ratings] had the largest percentage adults 18-49 ratings increase in viewing by DVR in their adults 18-49 Live+7 audience numbers from viewers watching shows after the airdate on their digital video recorders (DVRs).
– Largest Average Viewership Increase From DVR Viewing for Broadcast TV Shows:

Rank

Shows

Net

Viewers L+SD (Rating)

ViewersL+7 (Rating)

Post Airdate Increase (Absolute)

Post Airdate Increase (%)

1

TERRA NOVA-12/19

FOX

7236

9473

2237

30.9%

2

PRIME SUSPECT-12/22

NBC

4442

6099

1657

37.3%

3

X-FACTOR-WED-12/21

FOX

11233

12317

1084

9.7%

4

X-FACTOR-THU-12/22

FOX

12592

13538

946

7.5%

5

CHUCK-12/23

NBC

3348

4274

926

27.7%

6

FEAR FACTOR-12/19

NBC

6371

7222

851

13.4%

7

I HATE MY TEENAGE DGHTR-12/21

FOX

5781

6289

508

8.8%

8

20/20-FRIDAY-12/23

ABC

4704

5150

446

9.5%

9

ROCK CENTER-B. WILLIAMS-12/19

NBC

4258

4423

165

3.9%

10

WHO’S STILL STANDING-12/19

NBC

5573

5681

108

1.9%

11

NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL-12/25

NBC

24019

24084

65

0.3%

12

YOU DESERVE IT-12/19

ABC

3532

3596

64

1.8%

13

FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 3-12/25

NBC

14731

14758

27

0.2%

14

FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 2-12/25

NBC

6588

6596

8

0.1%

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The average viewership increase From DVR Viewing ranks which of the top broadcast shows [by Live+7 viewers] had the largest absolute increase in average viewership by DVR between the Live + Same Day and Live + 7 day ratings measurements.
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DVR (Time-shifted) Adults 18-49 Ratings – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data Live, Live+Same Day(Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs.

Live+Same Day(Live+SD) ratings include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing.

Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

DVR Ratings Increase Past Airdate – How many people watched the show on their DVRs within 7 days following the airdate

Until the 2009-2010 season, we used a show’s LIVE program rating or viewership as the base upon which the LIVE+7 day DVR viewing was added. Now, the press seems to be standardizing around using LIVE+SAME DAY DVR viewing as the base for the calculations, so that’s what we do now as well.

Just like the NBC TCA day, I’m following the chatter from the FOX TCA (Television Critics Association) meeting today so you don’t have to!

Along with typical PR blather, here are a couple things that somewhat qualify as news for existing shows (I don’t bother much with yet to be premiered shows):

Allen Gregory is officially canceled. “We will not be making any more” A rare public admission!

No real news on the fate of Terra Nova, House or Fringe (and those who were expecting such were kidding themselves). Lots of positive and negative “behind the scenes” and “sources say” chatter can be found about any of them. I’d ignore it.

Whatever happens with House, the producers will be given enough notice to “wrap things up”.

Reilly did admit that Fringe is losing them money. Begged fans to not begin the Save Our Show campaign now. Yeah, like that’s going to deter them.

There will be changes to The X Factor for season two. Is that really news? Excuse me for wasting your time with that.

In TV-ish news, the 24 movie is expected to begin filming in April or May.

*Due to the nature of live programming the ratings for NBC (NFL Wild Card game) and ABC (Republican Debate) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.

Of course, the NFL Wild Card playoff game between the Saints and Lions on NBC dominated Saturday night’s ratings and viewership, but we’ll have to wait for the final numbers on Tuesday to know by exactly how much (although I wouldn’t be surprised if NBC has Nielsen do a rush job on the time zone adjusted numbers and we see them earlier). Anyone quoting these preliminary NBC numbers just makes themselves look silly.

ABC’s Republican Debate was carried live in all time zones and so its ratings suffer from similar inaccuracies as the football game.

CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery at 10pm had a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating.

Our normal ratings source may be a Saints fan and still celebrating, so the ratings in today’s post are via TV Media Insights.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. More information on ratings is available here.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Fast National Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.

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During week thirteen of the 2011-12 broadcast season (December 12-18, 2011) with a light pre-holiday week schedule of new broadcast episodes, FOX’s New Girl topped the rankings for the week’s DVR viewing adults 18-49 ratings added between the Live+Same Day period (as reported in all our other ratings posts) and the Live + 7 Day measurement periods with a gain of 1.6 adults 18-49 ratings points.

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The 18-49 Demo Increase From DVR Viewing ranks which of the top broadcast shows [by Live+7 adults 18-49 ratings] had the largest absolute adults 18-49 ratings increase in viewing by DVR in their adults 18-49 Live+7 audience numbers from viewers watching shows after the airdate on their digital video recorders (DVRs).

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The 18-49 Demo % Increase From DVR Viewing ranks which of the top broadcast shows [by Live+7 18-49 ratings] had the largest percentage adults 18-49 ratings increase in viewing by DVR in their adults 18-49 Live+7 audience numbers from viewers watching shows after the airdate on their digital video recorders (DVRs).
– Largest Average Viewership Increase From DVR Viewing for Broadcast TV Shows:

Rank

Program

Net

Viewership Live+SD (000)

Viewership Live+7 (000)

Post Airdate Absolute Viewership Increase From DVR Viewing (000)

Post Airdate % Viewership Increase from DVR Viewing

1

MENTALIST, THE-12/15

CBS

13,162

16,859

3,697

28%

2

HAWAII FIVE-0-12/12

CBS

11,291

14,816

3,525

31%

3

NCIS-12/13

CBS

19,133

22,536

3,403

18%

4

GLEE-12/13

FOX

7,132

10,157

3,025

42%

5

CSI-12/14

CBS

12,233

15,171

2,938

24%

6

PERSON OF INTEREST-12/15

CBS

12,930

15,840

2,910

23%

7

NEW GIRL-12/13

FOX

6,819

9,681

2,862

42%

8

TWO AND A HALF MEN-12/12

CBS

14,877

17,718

2,841

19%

9

NCIS: LOS ANGELES-12/13

CBS

16,403

19,220

2,817

17%

10

CRIMINAL MINDS-12/14

CBS

12,876

15,653

2,777

22%

11

UNFORGETTABLE-12/13

CBS

11,295

13,921

2,626

23%

12

TERRA NOVA-12/12

FOX

6,885

9,200

2,315

34%

13

MIKE & MOLLY-12/12

CBS

12,774

14,812

2,038

16%

14

PRIME SUSPECT-12/15

NBC

3,703

5,710

2,007

54%

15

GRIMM-12/16

NBC

5,158

7,060

1,902

37%

16

SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC-12/14

CBS

10,869

12,765

1,896

17%

17

LAST MAN STANDING-12/13

ABC

7,508

9,347

1,839

24%

18

2 BROKE GIRLS-12/12

CBS

12,501

14,187

1,686

13%

19

RAISING HOPE-12/13

FOX

4,977

6,455

1,478

30%

20

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT-12/15

CBS

9,533

10,919

1,386

15%

21

FEAR FACTOR-12/12

NBC

8,519

9,562

1,043

12%

22

X-FACTOR-WED-12/14

FOX

10,786

11,730

944

9%

23

BIGGEST LOSER 12-12/13

NBC

7,811

8,586

775

10%

24

X-FACTOR-THU-12/15

FOX

9,869

10,618

749

8%

25

CHUCK-12/16

NBC

3,218

3,924

706

22%

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The average viewership increase From DVR Viewing ranks which of the top broadcast shows [by Live+7 viewers] had the largest absolute increase in average viewership by DVR between the Live + Same Day and Live + 7 day ratings measurements.
–Do the Live+7 ratings tell us anything about a show’s renewal prospects we didn’t already know from the Live+Same Day ratings? No. Click here to learn more.

DVR (Time-shifted) Adults 18-49 Ratings – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data Live, Live+Same Day(Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs.

Live+Same Day(Live+SD) ratings include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing.

Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

DVR Ratings Increase Past Airdate – How many people watched the show on their DVRs within 7 days following the airdate

Until the 2009-2010 season, we used a show’s LIVE program rating or viewership as the base upon which the LIVE+7 day DVR viewing was added. Now, the press seems to be standardizing around using LIVE+SAME DAY DVR viewing as the base for the calculations, so that’s what we do now as well.